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    Texans for Lawsuit Reform Foundation is a nonprofit research organization that provides objective analysis of the challenges presented by the Texas civil justice system. The Foundation’s publications reflect the comprehensive and in-depth legal research necessary to assure that Texas develops and maintains a civil justice system that serves every Texan in a fair and efficient manner.

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Intermediate Appellate Courts in Texas: A System Needing Structural Repair
Intermediate Appellate Courts in Texas: A System Needing Structural Repair

Texas has fourteen intermediate appellate courts. The structure of Texas’s intermediate appellate court districts is fraught with defects that create conflicts among the courts, unnecessary burdens on Texas’s two high courts, inefficiencies, and confusion.

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Small Claims in a Big State: How Texas Gets It Right
Small Claims in a Big State: How Texas Gets It Right

2020– Small claims trials are proceedings in which litigants seek redress in relatively low-dollar amounts, without the complexity of more formal proceedings. The purpose of small claims courts—in Texas and elsewhere—is to provide speedy, simplified, low-cost legal resolutions to small civil disputes

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Evaluating  Judicial Selection In Texas: A Comparative Study of State Judicial Selection Methods
Evaluating Judicial Selection In Texas: A Comparative Study of State Judicial Selection Methods

2019– Over the past twenty-five years, Texas has led the way in restoring fairness to our civil justice system. We now have the opportunity to lead the way in establishing a stable, consistent, fair, highly qualified,

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Evaluating Judicial Selection in Texas: A Comparative Study of State Judicial Selection Methods


09/30/2019

The Texans for Lawsuit Reform (TLR) Foundation has released its latest paper, “Evaluating Judicial Selection in Texas: A Comparative Study of State Judicial Selection Methods,” an in-depth study comparing the methods used by various states to select their judges.

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Intermediate Appellate Courts in Texas: A System Needing Structural Repair
Intermediate Appellate Courts in Texas: A System Needing Structural Repair

Texas has fourteen intermediate appellate courts. The structure of Texas’s intermediate appellate court districts is fraught with defects that create conflicts among the courts, unnecessary burdens on Texas’s two high courts, inefficiencies, and confusion.

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